(Financial Times-UK) Sue Cameron - Frits Philips, the former head of Royal Philips Electronics who died on Monday at the age of 100, helped save the lives of hundreds of Dutch Jews during the Second World War after the Nazis forced him to open a factory in a concentration camp near Eindhoven. In a Schindler-style operation, 382 out of the 469 Jewish workers there survived. Later, Philips was awarded the Yad Vashem medal by Israel.
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